Felicitas Carrique Contributor Share on Twitter Felicitas Carrique is an Argentinian reporter focused on media, technology, and innovation. The abuse of Facebook’s platform for political purposes is a problem that doesn’t stop at the U.S border. Governments around the world are continui…

Changement de pratiques

Bragging about Facebook's ability to shape election outcomes via its social network probably doesn't look so great right now.

Yeah, I got one of Tumblr’s you-may-have-unwittingly-interacted-with-propaganda-blogs emails too. And like everyone else, I kind of shrugged because really, what am I supposed to do about that now? I...

Facebook was warned in 2011 of the loopholes exploited by U.K. data firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) but said it saw no need to change its policies, an Austri

The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg. What if my data is hacked – or sold?

Who’s to blame for the leaking of 50 million Facebook users’ data? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke several days of silence in the face of a raging privacy storm to go on CNN this week to say he was sorry. He also admitted the company had made mistakes; said it had breache…

After all the recent Facebook news, I figured it would be a good time to check out their account deletion flow.

Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.

Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner's mum

Facebook bought his app for $16 billion

Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way

It could get blocked if it refuses

In at least four investigations last year, Raleigh police used search warrants to demand Google device data near the scene of the crime.

Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate

Whistleblower details workings of Cambridge Analytica and its use of targeted political advertising that could be used to influence people's opinions

Début 2017, un chercheur madrilène a vu apparaître sur son fil d'actualité Facebook une étonnante invitation. «Connectez-vous à la communauté gay et louez des appartements à prix abordables à des gens comme vous!», indiquait la publicité colorée. Seul souci, celui-ci n'avait jamais indiqué à Facebook son orientation sexuelle. Comment une entreprise de location de vacances pouvait-elle le savoir? Et le contacter directement sur Facebook en fonction de cette information personnelle?

Avec deux autres confrères de l'Université Carlos III de Madrid, le chercheur a publié mi-février une enquête d'envergure pour mesurer si d'autres Européens avaient pu, comme lui, voir des publicités liées à leur orientation sexuelle, politique, religieuse ou à leur appartenance ethnique. Il ressort que 73% des utilisateurs européens de Facebook ont été «ciblés» par des experts en marketing en fonction de ces données dites «sensibles», avec l'aide de Facebook.

Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online—and even offline, wandering around the physical world—it doesn’t need to hear us to know what we like. Here are some ways to limit the amount of data Facebook and advertisers are collecting about you.

Et pas que pour le FBI

I asked my wife if it is alright if her Date of Birth is known to a stranger. Only if they send me a birthday gift, she joked. What about…

Company announces end to trial in which professional news posts were removed from users’ feeds in six countries

This time, we’ve chosen a smart hub designed to control sensors and devices installed at home. It can be used for different purposes, such as energy and water management, monitoring and even security systems.

Mozilla n'a pas confiance

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Today's lesson: Medium is bad. They've suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories for bogus reasons and with only 12 hours notice.

Une couche supplémentaire

A handful of marketers suspended advertising as Facebook hustled to quell anxiety about its platform.

If you're ready to quit Facebook, here's how to replace everything you might miss.

Facebook has said that it is within its terms of service to see what users are typing even when the status or comment is never posted on the social network. The Menlo Park, Calif., company confirmed...

It’s not that James Williams, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute’s Digital Ethics Lab (motto: “Every Bit…

An email exchange between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica showed how the company responded to early reports that the data firm was misusing social media.

De nouvelles mesures et une communication de crise

FBI called in as some city services are interrupted, employees told to turn off PCs.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is drawing attention to malicious data thieves and brokers. But every Facebook app—even the dumb, innocent ones—collected users’ personal data without even trying.

Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, claimed they used proxies in the U.S. to influence the 2016 election.

It’s true that the Cambridge Analytica incident wasn’t a security breach. It was something far worse.

It is easy to be misled into believing that the Cambridge Analytica story is about rogue data miners taking advantage of an innocent Facebook. Facebook’s decision to suspend Cambridge Analytica’s access, the use of terms like “data breach”, and a good deal of coverage in the media seems to follow these lines. That, however, misses the key point.

Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters• How Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms turned ‘likes’ into a political tool

They implemented Go365, which is an app that I’m supposed to download on my phone, to track my steps, to earn points through this app. If I don’t earn enough points, and if I choose not to use the app, then I’m penalized $500 at the end of the year. People felt that was very invasive, to have to download that app and to be forced into turning over sensitive information.

The Shadow Brokers leak showed the NSA was tracking at least 45 nation-state hacking operations. Experts explain how the agency stepped up its monitoring.

When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flatter

Everyone knew the MoviePass deal is too good to be true — and as is so often the case these days, it turns out you're not the customer, you're the product...

Once in control, they can silently push new ad-filled "updates" to those users.

Une base de données non sécurisée

VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC. I’ve tested seventy VPN providers and 16 of them leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC (23%)

Drivers already know upfront pricing typically doesn't work in our favor. But what is upfront pricing, or variations of it, looking like for passengers? We had frequent traveler and RSG contributor Will analyze how Uber charges frequent riders.

The initiative also would allow Californians to sue companies that violate their request not to share personal information — another point of contention for business groups, which almost always oppose policies making it easier for them to be sued.

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Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook's Site Governance page with pasted messages, many more than 7,000 comments were received on the proposal -- …

On Twitter, in a thread that went viral, François Chollet, an A.I. software engineer at Google DeepMind, argued, “Facebook is,…

The California Consumer Privacy Act, a possible California ballot measure in November, would require big companies such as Facebook, Google and AT&T to be more transparent in how they use data gathered on consumers.

The Trump administration says Russia penetrated at least one power plant's control software. And yet, President Trump has passed up opportunities to call out Russia's actions.

I'm going to assume that you weren't living in an internet-proof cave this weekend, and caught at least some of the stories about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. The news first kicked off with the announcement of a data protection lawsuit...

The social network was said to have reached a deal with the executive to depart after disagreements over how to address its role in spreading disinformation.

Facebook is using us. It is actively giving away our information. It is creating an echo chamber in the name of connection. It surfaces the divisive and destroys the real reason we began using social media in the first place – human connection. It is a cancer. I’ve begun the slow proces…

This story was updated at 10:37 p.m.

When fixing items is actively discouraged by manufacturers, recycling becomes a political act, say Repair Cafe volunteers

GrayKey, an iPhone unlocker, is secretly being marketed to law enforcement. Thanks to an anonymous source, we now know how the device works—and the danger it presents to security.

We may think we get a fair deal, offering our data as the price of sharing puppy pictures. By other metrics, we are being victimized: In the largest technology companies, the share of income going to labor is only about 5 to 15 percent, Mr. Posner and Mr. Weyl write. That’s way below Walmart’s 80 percent. Consumer data amounts to work they get free.

Some drivers end up losing money after insurance, maintenance and other costs, according to study raising concerns over labor standards

Usurpation, interception, déconnexion…

L'indépendance de Google Shopping serait un leurre

It can be tempting to hook up everything you love to the internet. But take a moment to appreciate some of the objects that can remain unplugged.